2014

Tonight Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tam and Thalen... run into our first massive issues with the recorded show

Last night we recorded episode 100 of the AggroChat podcast, and also wrapped up our Undertale AggroChat game club show. It signified our switch to a new way of recording the show... and is often the case with trying something new. Things wen't horribly wrong. Essentially every voice by my own was recorded sounding great... and when I spoke it sounded like a voice scrambler. At first I thought the show was a complete loss however this morning after copious amounts of edits I managed to get the show at least in a listenable state.... albeit my voice sounds like a hilarious chipmunk voice modulator.

So join us for a slightly screwed up show as we talk about UnderTale. Several fans on twitter urged us to release this show in "as is" condition. I posted a snippet of what it originally sounded like on twitter and I think it is a slight miracle that we managed to get it that listenable. Thanks again for sticking with us through 100 shows, and especially being willing to deal with bizarro issues when they arise.

This week we suffered some setbacks. Firstly we were late getting started by about an hour, and then once we started... we kinda mostly sounded like robots. We muscled through for this week but hopefully by next week we will have acquired a new infrastructure for recording the show that sounds better. The worst part is however.... the conversation this week was really interesting. We dug int the whole Faction Wall question currently happening in Wildstar and how we generally as a group feel like games are better without them. We also delved into everyones continued addiction to Stardew Valley. Ended up being a fairly short show as far as AggroChat episodes goes, but a pretty content dense one.

Tonight Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tam and Thalen talk about a lot of games, and get into a moral debate about the world of The Division.

This evening we had a pretty strange show as far as subjects go. It feels like we can never just talk about how much we like this or that game without delving into deeper subjects. First up we talk Stardew Valley and how it has seemed to take the internet by a storm... or at least most of our social circles. Next up we talk The Division and instead of getting into a discussion about what we liked about it.... we ended up getting into a discussion about the morality of dispatching extrajudicial executions. Eventually we do however get into a thread about the things we really enjoy about the game. We also talk a bit about the bad news of the week relating to the cancellation of Everquest Next and the severe layoffs at Carbine for Wildstar. This spawns a discussion about MMOs in general and their viability for the future. Finally we talk about the new Flamestrike event going on in Infinity allowing players to participate in a larger campaign through the internet.

Tonight Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, and Thalen talk about a bunch of things including the pitfalls of Early Access

Tonight we ended up recording a pretty strange episode as far as our normal AggroChat episodes go. We talked about the weirdness that happens when you play a game that requires a very special controller, and that manufacturers future is up in the air. We delve into the feeling of rehashing old content, and when exactly that stops being fun. That leads into a lengthy discussion about the pitfalls of Early Access... and gives us the title of this episode. Belghast talks a bit about his experiences with the Master of Orion reboot early access, and Kodra talks about the newish trend of persistent board games as he and some friends start Kingdom Death.